The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09

his friends in Pennsgrove a visit oI
Thursday.
ASparty of fourteen persons recently
started from The vicinity Of Woods.
town for the West.
The season for hot bed making rs al
hand. The usual question among far.
mers is, ''How's yer hot bed"
Mrs. Frank Elkinton has appealed
her case for an equal share IL Charles
Elkinton's estate to the Prerogatiye
court.
Alonzo Margrrum is now home.
As he is a member of Co. Il, 9th Reg,
N. G. N. j., he has received a three
months furlough.
Seth Leap, Jr., formerly of Pehns-
grove, is now III p. b. Horner, com
mission me .,ant, N. E. corner OF
New Market and Callowhlll SITS, Phila.
List Of letters remaining in the Penns-
grove Post Office for month ending
Marcl, 3Ist. Miss Lizzie Cook, Charles
Minnick, Mrs. A. J. Nichols, Capt.
Edw. Recap, Joanna Wood, Mr.. Hor-
lon White. Persons calling for the
above should say advertised.
Shad have been coming up The river
yery slow this week and but few have
been caught. On Monday rs shad aud
$50 rock, on Tuesday 40 siiad, on We'd
nesday about 300 shad and 80 rock
ard on ThursdAy about 270O shad were
taken to market. They sold for about
$50 per hundred wholesale. Denny
Bros. took the shad to market OH the
S. A. Mccall this week. The highest
catch at P~enusgrove has been Ii 10y
Allen Hunter.
John Naudane, Who worked at h
Parvin Wagon Factory until recently,
had a piece of steel TO run in his right
wrist last week while working at Jack
son & Sharps, in Wilmington. Two
DOt
Wilmington doctors probed for tile steel
without finding it. He came to Mr..
Paryin's last saturday and for three
DAYS and nights he suffered extremely
from the wound bus by poultieing 1t
he has been very much relieved although
the steel is in his wrist yet.
Two or three inches of sno on the
ground and still showing hard was a
yery surprising April Fool to all last
Saturday morning upon arising. the
ground would have been covered with
five inches of SNOW by noon il 1T had
not melted nearly as fast as it fell.
BY night there was put little lett OF
this noted snow storm. Snow storms
in April reminded one OF our oldest
citizens of one that occurred III lS4l or
1912 between the second aud 9th OF
April. Farmers had their hotbeds
made when "a SNOW storm came II
covered them six or eight inches deep.
1t is reported that Elwood r.. Norney
of Port Penn, who had the Delaware
law passed to keep Jersey fishermen out
of the Delaware side of the Bay so the
Door Delaware fishermen could have a
chance, over reached his greed by com
ing near having ii law passed tiiro ugh
the Delaware legislature, OF which he
is a member, giving him the sole right
to fish on the Delaware side from Port
Penn to Bombay Hook. The law was
for the benefit of the poor fishermen.
He was the most important oncof the
paor. The bill was killed by a farmer
who happened to see through the little
scheme.
The Philadelphia Record on Thurs
day saws that Sturgeon fishermen on
the New Jersey size of The Delaware
River, at Bay Side, report abitter feel
ing of aHtagorism on the part OF the
Delaware fishermen, and that already
threats have been made by the latter
that if any Jerseymen shall be caught
on the Delaware side of the channel
they will at once be seized and locked
up. Several New Jersey boats will car
nv arms, and if an attempt be made at
arrest there will be trouble. We have
not heard of any threatened disturbance
vet. The Pennsgrove sturgeon fisher
men have not left for the Bay yet but
will do so next week.